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CVE-2008-3356

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
05/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

verifydb in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and other Unix platforms sets the ownership or permissions of an iivdb.log file without verifying that it is the application's own log file, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink with an iivdb.log filename.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ingres:ingres:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ingres:ingres:2006:9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ingres:ingres:2006:9.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ingres:ingres:2006:release_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ingres:ingres:2006:release_2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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